A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
KARL MARXThe demand to give up the illusions about its condition is the demand to give up a condition that needs illusions.
More Karl Marx Quotes
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Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
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Your favourite virtue – Simplicity.
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
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Education is free. Freedoom of education shall be enjoyed under the condition fixed by law and under the supreme control of the state.
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life – the greater is the store of your estranged being.
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The theory of Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
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Every opinion based on scientific criticism I welcome.
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Religion is the opium of the masses.
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All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.
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The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry.
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Take away a nation’s heritage and they are more easily persuaded.
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May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are ‘peaceful’.
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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
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